Ivan Makarov Blog

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Category: People

Look Who’s Taking Pictures

I wonder what weight more..

Plate 16 – Sitting on the Edge of the World

This is by far the craziest and the most dangerous photo I have ever taken in my life. Brandon is sitting on the edge of the Dead Horse Point in Moab, Utah, and if he was to fall, he was to fly about 2,000 feet down. I often get asked how we took this. It [...]

Plate 14 – The Age of Discovery

One day I’ll be laying on my deathbed, looking back at my life. When I’ll think of 2008, this will probably be an image that will first come back to my memory. I think I enjoyed watching Maks grow more than anything else that’s happened to us that year. This was the first time I [...]

Plate 13 – Freedom

“He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul’s estate.” Henry David Thoreau

Plate 11 – His Beautiful Life

I have no chance of taking this kind of image of Maks again. First, his feet no longer look this cute. Second, no chance he’s laying awake like this in a lit room. Third, no chance he’s laying at all while I have my camera in my hands. So to you young parents out there [...]